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Health, Aging, and Death

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Harry E. Emson
Harry E. Emson
Affiliation:
professor of Pathology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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In healthcare, it should be a primary requirement that we define accurately what we are trying to do. The necessity for this intensifies when we are under stress, a part of which is caused by increased technological ingenuity outstripping the general ability to pay for it. Dealing with human beings and their problems, we are person and event oriented; our creed has always been and is the best that can be done for an individual, at a point in time. Increasingly, we must modify this traditional approach by viewing episodic care of the individual as a part of two continua, of the individual in relation to their life span, and of the individual in relation to the community and healthcare system to which all belong. We are not skilled or practised in defining our overall aims.

Type
Special Section: Elder Ethics
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , Spring 1995 , pp. 163 - 166
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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